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Naga Siren Guide,

2011-08-25T03:38:00.000-07:00

DotA Naga Siren Guide, The Naga Siren Guide, Strategy & Build. Slithice is an Agility hero which has some of her skills remade on the DotA 6.72. This post will provide you with the Naga Siren Skill Description, the Slithice Guide, the Slithice Strategy, the Slithice Item Build and the Naga Siren Skill Build.

Name: Slithice, the Naga Siren

Type: Agility
Alliance: Sentinel

Strength: 21 + 2.3
Intelligence: 18 + 1.95
Agility: 21 + 2.75 (Primary)

Movement Speed: 320
Attack Range: 128 (melee)
Total starting damage: 56-58
Total starting armor: 5.94

Slithice was always a vagabond among the Naga, roaming beyond the boundaries of the sea in search of new things. During her adventures she met and fell in love with a young Orc raining to be a Blademaster. Though he was inexperienced he taught her many Orcish fighting tactics employed by seasoned warriors. During their courtship as she was learning how to make traps from a local raider, a swarm of Scourge came and invaded, and her love was killed before her very eyes. She used her Naga magics to put the evil to sleep and fled, and now gives her all to the Sentinel, in the name of her love.

Slithice the Naga Siren Skill Descriptions

Mirror Image

Confuses the enemy by summoning copies of Slithice, which can deal damage. Images take extra damage.

This skill creates 3 illusions, which are everyone of them deals and takes different damage on each level

Level 1 - deals 30% damage and take 600% damage

Level 2 - deals 35% damage and take 500% damage

Level 3 - deals 40% damage and take 400% damage

Level 4 - deals 45% damage and take 300% damage

Duration: 30 seconds

Cooldown: 40 seconds

Mana cost: 70/80/90/100

Note: During the casting, Slithice is invulnerable. This can be used to avoid spell and attack damage. Upon cast most effects will be removed from Slithice.

Note 2: If Slithice is targeted with an attack or skill before the attacker is in range and she uses Mirror Image the attacker will hit the real Slithice.

Ensnare

Entraps an enemy unit in a net, rendering the unit unable to move.

Immobilize only the enemy units

Duration of the trap: 2/3/4/5 seconds

Cooldown: 14 seconds

Mana cost: 75/85/95/105

Casting range: 620/630/640/650

Note: Works on magic immune units. Interrupts channeling spells. A few spells, including Blink, will also be disabled when Ensnared.

Note 2: Ensnare sets the movement speed of the affected unit to zero. Ensnare also dispels non-combat consumables.

Note 3: Pugna's Decrepify will set the ensnared unit free.

Rip Tide

Calls upon the power of the seas, creating an enchanted wave that deals damage and degrades enemy unit's armor for 8 seconds.

Damage: 130/160/190/220 (magical)

Armor reduction: -2/-3/-4/-5

AOE (starting/distance/final): 350/300/350

Duration of armor reduction: 8 seconds

Casting range: 600

Cooldown: 12 seconds

Mana cost: 80/90/100/110

Note: Can affect units up to 1000 range away.

Sing of the Siren

Releases a melody around you the puts enemy units to sleep while they are in your range. Units wake up if you leave the area or the duration of the melody runs out. Slithice can choose to end the melody at any point.

AOE: 750

Duration: 6

Cooldown: 180/160/120

Mana cost: 100

Note: This skill also can be able to put enemy structures to sleep. Sleeping units and structures are invulnerable until the end of the spell.

Note 2: Enemy units wake up when you leave the area, or at the end of the duration. Casting the spell again will end its duration immediately.

Slithice the Naga Siren Skill Build

1. Ensnare

2. Rip Tide

3. Rip Tide

4. Mirror Image

5. Rip Tide

6. Song of the Siren

7. Rip Tide

8. Ensnare

9. Ensnare

10. Ensnare

11. Song of the Siren

12. Mirror Image

13. Mirror Image

14. Mirror Image

15. Stats

16. Song of the Siren

17-25. Stats

Obviously, we took Ensnare on the first level for preventing early first blood attempt. Especially when we face the dual-lane or tri-lane enemies. Rip Tide taken and maximized first, the new remade skill has the low mana and fast cooldown AOE nuke, which is good for farming and dominating the lane efficiently. Mirror Image taken on lvl 4 to be the escape mecanism as well as increases the lane control. After that maximized Ensnare to help ganking and pursuing the enemy. The Ulti taken whenever possible. Stats come last.

Slithice the Naga Siren Item Build

If random

1. Tangos, Healing salve, Circlet x2, and additional QB

2. Get Boots of speed + Circlet x1

3. Finish Wraith Band x3

4. Finish Power Tread

Slithice's early core item should be like this:

Quelling Blade - Increases the chance of last hit which is necessary for gathering gold in early game.

Power Tread - improves survivability by turning it to STR mode and of course bonus AS and MS for gaining gold efficiently and harras as well as gank the enemy.

Wraith Band - Good early stats, increase survivability and damage as well.

Situational items :

Magic Stick/ Magic Wand - is a situational item against spell spammers.

Poor Man's Shield - if you have a hard time laning. Note that this item does not work with the illusions.

Main Core Items

Diffusal Blade - Purge ability which is very usefull for chasing an enemy. Also it's good to know that every hit wether from you or your images will burn the opponents mana and deal additional damage on every hit and damage type of orb is physical. And additional agility stats (Our images' damages effected by our stats not the +damage).

Manta Style - Provides us with good stats (damage, movespeed, hp) and an active ability that is on a level to our Mirror Image spell, which means that we will get additional images around (total of 5 illusions). Damage maximized.

Late Game Items

Here are Luxury late game items for her:

upgrade to

Butterfly - Gives Slithice +30 agility, +30 extra damage, +30 IAS, and more 30% evasion. It's a best item for agility hero like her. Your illusions also gain some damages from the agility stats (remember that +30 extra damage and +30 IAS don't effect with your illusions).

Linken Sphere - Slithice is a glassy hero which is always being targeted by deathly single spell or disable. So Linken will be a perfect item for this kind of situation. Also provide good stats for survivability.

Hearth of Tarrasque - The extra strength provided will be your HP boost as well as your illusions. Also out-of-combat HP regen is what we're aiming for.

Crystalys/ Buriza-do kyanon - Though you gain benefit from critical damage, your illusions do not gain +raw damage from it. But the damage from your illusion still kind of huge (about 3:2 between you and your illusion's critical damage). If you want to bring back the old Slithice which has a red number above her when whacking some guys, get this item.

Not Recomended Items:

Battlefury - Since +damage and cleave won't work on your illusions, this item is a perfect crap.

Slithice the Naga Siren Strategy

You can pick this hero if your team need carrier, gank initiator, pusher, and long-duration disabler. But don't pick this hero if enemy team has more than one AOE nuker, they will ruin your illusions.

You can be supported by:

AOE Disabler/ Nuker

- Your ulti will be the initiator, then give the rest to them

Difficult-to-aim disabler

- Ensnare will provide them with 100% accuracy

Silencer

- Your whacks will be land perfectly without fear of being disabled

Good supporter and babysitter

- Thanks to their heal

Also some spell considered work when Siren of the Song being casted and enemies are sleeping

+ Heartstopper Aura

+ Weave

+ Midnight Pulse

Beware of his counter:

+ your AOE disabler friends

Massive AOE disabler/nuker

- They will ruin your illusions in no time, revealing your true self to be whacked

Silencer

- You can't do your escape mechanism while being silenced

+ carrier

Cleaver

- Your illusions will be ruined with a couple of attack

Orb walker

- Worst lane partner you've ever meet, change your lane immediately

Playstyle

Early Game.

Laning with your friend (babysitter or disabler) on dual or tri lane. Choose the short-lane which your creeps are closer to the tower. It will help you farm easily while staying away from enemies. Never solo mid because you're very fragile and easy to be ganked. Especially for range heroes, they will never give you a chance to farm.

The srategy is playing safe and focus on farm. Use your Rip Tide if you have a hard time to last hit every single creeps. It will assist you with enough damage and armor reduction for fast-killing creeps. Though on level 5 you can attempt to harras (or even kill) your single non-disabler hero enemy using Mirror Image-Rip Tide-Ensnare-whacks-Rip Tide combo (considering your manapool is enough to do the last Rip Tide), you'll have to be careful of being ganked, because this time your mana is not enough to do the escape procedure (ensnare or mirror image). Of course it will be more safe and efficient when your disabler teammate is around.

At level 6 you are virtually invincible, thanks to your 6-secs-AOE-disable ulti. This skill is very useful when you and your team in a gank with heavy injuries. So always have your mana remaining for doing Song of the Siren in critical condition. Take a note that if you leave the area where you cast the song, the spell will disappear.

Mid Game.

When you're on Level 7 - 16. In this fase always carry TP for keeping alive while being ganked. Use a simple combo of Song of the Siren-TP to give you a 100% escape. At level 7 your Rip Tide should reach max level. The AOE -5 armor and 220 damage is no joke. It can be used for better farm, controlling lane, or easy heroes kill. The TP you already had also good for ganking the enemy. TP to other lane and intiate the gank (using Ensnare). Your team should help you with their combo to make sure the gank was success.

At this point of the game we are finishing our Diffusal, which greatly increases our damage output, while purging the enemy stops them from running away (in addition to Ensnare). Remember, always have your diffusal and ensnare to the right target, for example purge Warlock's ulti to neglect it while ensnaring Rylai to stop her Freezing Field. This way you'll give benefit for your team.

For the overall, your role in this fase is gank and farm, also don' forget to push the enemy tower between team clashes (your mirror images are really annoying for structures) and as always, see the minimap for saving attempt.

Late game.
This phase is where you are truly shine. Still, you will be no match for being ganked and combo-ed by enemy heroes. So always stay with your teammate and use your ulti depend on the situations of the team. Enemy carries is your priority, because they're so fragile for you, target them first on every team clash. Get your luxury items and always push and gank to get your hands to the Tree of Life or the Frozen Throne.

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Dota Phoenix Guide | Icarus, Pheonix Strategy, Gameplay & Item build - Dota 6.70

2011-08-22T19:54:00.000-07:00

Icarus Phoenix is the newly introduced hero in Dota 6.70 map by Icefrog. It's a strength based hero which is added in sentinel. Icarus Pheonix is added in strength pool which is an strange act by Icefrog but anyway it's a great hero with good spells and eye candy graphics. You can read Icarus Phoenix hero details, Item builds and skill builds here.

Phoenix Introduction:
Ancient scriptures spoke of seven sacred emanations of light, and of their convergence in great conflict. The collision of these rays upon the mortal realm created a pyre of the highest purity, giving birth to the mythical Phoenix. As a manifestation of divine flames, Icarus can discharge either flames of death and destruction beam of energy that he can emit can incinerate whole armies from across the battlefield. Unafraid to utilize his own life-force in order to vanquish his enemies, Icarus can also harness the direct power of the sun to create stellar explosion.

Icarus, Phoenix Stats:
Main Attribute: Strength
Alliance: Sentinel

Agility: 12 + 1.3 per level
Intelligence: 18 + 1.8 per level
Strength: 22 + 2.9 per level.

Starting Armor: 0
Movement Speed: 290
Attack Range: 500

Icarus, Phoenix Abilities/Spells:

1. Icarus Dive (Hotkey: D):

Phoenix dives forward in an arc with a fixed distance in the targeted direction, dealing damage and disarming any units he comes into contact with, and then orbiting back to his original position. If during the 2 second duration of this spell Phoenix casts another spell, the dive ends. Phoenix gains magic immunity for this brief dive period as well. Costs 10% of current HP to cast.

Damage: 100/150/200/250
Disarm Duration: 2/2.5/3/3.5

Travel Range: 1400
Travel Width: 500
Total Travel Time: 2 seconds

Cooldown: 40
Manacost: 100
HP Cost: 10% of current HP

Note: You can also press the same hotkey anytime to end the dive

2. Fire Spirits (Hotkey: F)

Born out of his own life force, Icarus creates 4 fire spirits to fly alongside him. Each spirit slowly grows in power and can be used to damage his enemies or heal his allies. Costs 10% of your current HP to cast.

Maximum Growth Time: 10 seconds

Spirit Minimum Damage/Heal:10/15/20/25
Spirit Maximum Damage/Heal: 40/60/80/100
Spirit AOE: 400

Subability Cast Range: 1200
Manacost: 75
Cooldown: 35
HP Cost: 10% of current HP

Note: The target subability fires off each spirit one at a time. It has no cooldown. If you let them expire without ordering them, they sacrifice themselves where they are.

3. Sun Ray (Hotkey: R)

Drawing from his own inner fire, Icarus expels a huge beam of light at the cost of his own life energy. The beam slows and damages enemies for a percentage of their life. Costs 25% of current HP to activate.

Upon casting, you lose the ability to attack or move directly. Ray extends out to the first hero it finds and burns it and a very small area around it.

Can be toggled on and off.

Slow: 14/20/26/32%
Slow duration: 2 seconds
Damage per second: 10/20/30/40 + 5% of Target's Max Life

Activation Health Cost: 25% Current HP
Activation Mana Cost: 10
Overtime Mana Cost: 4% of Max

You have another sub ability that you can toggle to allow you to drift towards the direction of the ray.

Note: You control the direction of the ray using right click and the beam will move towards that angle.
Note 2: Automatically shuts off if you are silenced or stunned

4. Ultimate - Supernova (Hotkey: V)

The Phoenix willingly ends his current life for the chance to be reborn. Transforms into a burning sun that scorches enemies within 1000 range. The sun can be attacked by enemy heroes; if it is destroyed, the Phoenix dies as well. However, if the sun survives for 6 seconds all enemies in range will be stunned and the Phoenix will return to life fully regenerated.

Hero Attacks Required (to kill sun): 5/7/9
Duration: 6

Burn AOE: 1000
Damage: 60/80/100 dps
Stun: 1.5/2/2.5

Cooldown: 110
Manacost: 200

Dota Tuskar Guide | Ymir, Tuskarr Strategy, Gameplay & Item build - Dota 6.70

2011-08-22T19:43:00.000-07:00

Ymir, Tuskarr is the Christmas present from IceFrog to all Dota community along with Dota 6.70 map. Ymir, Tuskarr is basically a strength based hero which is also added in sentinel like Icarus Pheonix. The detailed guide of Ymir Tuskarr is given below. So check out the full Dota Tuskar Guide | Ymir, Tuskarr Strategy, Gameplay & Item build.

Tuskarr Introduction:

Hailing from Borean Tundra. Ymir is one of the wisest Tuskarr warriors. Acquainted with years of warfare experience against raiding Ice Trolls and Nerubian Spiders that beset his village during younger years. Ymir eagerly volunteered himself into ranks of the Sentinel to help halt the notorious rise of the Lich King. A specialist in controlling the element of ice, Ymir's prowess lies in surprising enemies with frost magics. His arsenal not only cosists of propelling Snowballs and hurling shards of solidifying ice, but also conjuring massive snowstorms that greatly impede his enemies' battle efficiency.

Tuskarr Stats:

Main Attribute: Strength
Alliance: Sentinel

Agility: 23 + 2.1
Intelligence: 18 + 1.7
Strength: 23 + 2.3

Starting Armor: 3
Movement Speed: 305
Attack Range: Melee

Tuskarr Abilities/Spells:

1. Ice Shards (Hotkey: E)

Tuskarr compresses 5 shards of ice into a ball of frozen energy that damages all enemies in comes in contact with. If the ball comes in contact with an enemy hero or reaches its maximum range the shards are released, creating a barrier that lasts for 5 seconds.

Travel AOE: 200
Cast Range: 1500

Damage: 70/140/210/280
Shards Duration: 5

Manacost: 120
Cooldown: 18/16/14/12

Note: Shards block path

2. Snowball (Hotkey: W)

Tuskarr and any nearby allied heroes roll in a quickly growing snowball towards the target enemy unit. Any victims caught in the snowball's path take damage and are briefly stunned; the final target takes 40 extra damage and 0.25 extra stun duration.

The snowball moves at the combined move speed of the heroes within.

Damage: 40/80/120/160
Stun Duration: 0.25/0.5/0.75/1.0

AOE: 200 + 40 per second

Target Cast Range: 1250
Manacost: 75
Cooldown: 40

Note: Stops traveling after 4 seconds.

3. Frozen Sigil (Hotkey: F)

Tuskarr summons a Frozen Sigil by calling upon the deepest cold of winter. The Sigil creates a snowstorm which slows all enemy units within 600 range.

MS Slow: 10/15/20/25%
AS Slow: 30/40/50/60%

Movement Speed: 310 (Flying Unit)
Sigil HP: 300 (same as pugna's ward)
Bounty: 90/100/110/120

Duration: 30
Cooldown: 50
Manacost: 75

Note: Spawns infront of him

4. Ultimate - Warlus Punch (Hotkey: R)

Tuskarr prepares his mighty Walrus Punch; his next attack will do a critical strike and launch the victim into the air. The victim will be slowed upon landing and take damage.

Critical Strike: 2.5x (4x if the target is below 50% hp)
Landing Damage: 100/200/300
Landing Slow: 40%
Landing Slow Duration: 2/3/4 seconds

Cooldown: 18/16/14
Manacost: 50/75/100

List Of Abilities which Rubick Cannot Steal Advertisements:

2011-08-21T22:39:00.000-07:00

Rubick is an incredible addition in DotA which almost surprised the players by its high amplitude and an ability which is still debatable whether its stable or unstable. Well, we won't put our self in this debate, in fact we are now providing a list of abilities which can not be stolen by Rubick. Actually, some of these abilities are useless to steal but not all. We hope that the balance debate of Rubick should be over after some time and it will be included in stable versions.

List Of Spells/Abilities which Rubick can not steal:

• Useless abilities (for instance, subabilities, or Quas/Wex/Exort/Invoke)
• Transformation abilities (Chemical Rage, Firefly, Flak Cannon, ...)
• Arrow abilities (Poison Attack, Glaives of Wisdom, ...)

Abilities with hotkey conflicts:

Q:
- None!

X:

- X Marks the Spot
- Shadowraze X
- Tornado
- Exorcism

Z:
- Shadowraze Z
- Freezing Field
- Alacrity

Abilities with technical issues:

- Morph Agility/Strength
- Summon Spirit Bear
- Spin Web
- War Club
- Soul Assumption
- Dark Seer's Refraction
- Borrowed Time
- Overcharge
- Spirits
- Insatiable Hunger
- Devour
- Telekinesis
- Fade Bolt
- Spell Steal

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2011-08-20T21:38:00.000-07:00

DotA Rubick

DotA Rubick, The Grand Magus Guide & Gameplay strategy. Rubick is an Sentinel intelligence hero which was introduced in the big release of DotA 6.72. Rubick hero model is based on an extinct Dota hero model, Gambler. It can steal enemy's spell with his ultimate which looks quite interesting and fun to play. Check out Rubick Item Build & detailed guide.

Rubick, The Grand Magus Story:

Rubick, the son of Aghanim, is a force to be reckoned with. Crowds marvel in wonder at his effortless ability to hurl objects through the air, using nothing but his mind. Many wizards have challenged him yet none have surpassed his powerful and debilitating magics. The Grand Magus, with his endless talent, will stop at nothing to bewilder and outsmart his enemies, even if it means turning their own magic against them. Renowned for his unique ability to steal magics with a mere thought, he is undeniably a favorable asset to the Sentinel in their fight against the Scourge.

Rubick Hero Stats:

Name: Rubick, the Grand Magus
Type: Intelligence
Alliance: Sentinel

Strength: 19 + 1.5
Intelligence: 27 + 2.4
Agility: 14 + 1.6

Movement Speed: 300
Attack Range: 600
Total starting damage: 44-54
Total starting armor: 1

Rubick Spells/Abilities Guide:

1. Telekinesis (Hotkey: Z)

Rubick uses his telekinetic powers to lift the enemy into the air briefly and then hurls them back at the ground. The unit lands on the ground with such force that it stuns nearby enemies.

Lift Duration: 1.5/1.75/2/2.25 seconds
Stun duration: 1/1.25/1.5/1.75 (in the area it lands in, all enemy units except the initial target)
Land stun AoE: 325

Cast Range: 550/575/600/625
Cooldown: 18
Manacost: 160

While the target is in the air, Rubick may use a secondary ability to control the throw the enemy in a targeted direction. Maximum of 375 units away.

Note: The directional landing happens when the lift duration is over, but you can issue the direction order anytime.

Telekinesis Ability Code: A27F
Telekinesis Sub-Ability Code: A27X

2. Fade Bolt (Hotkey: X):

Rubick creates a powerful stream of arcane energy that travels between enemy units, dealing damage and reducing their attack damage for 10 seconds. Each bounce reduces the damage dealt by 4%.

Damage: 75/150/225/300
Attack Reduction: -14/20/26/32 Damage [-7/10/13/16 on creeps]
Duration: 10 seconds

Cast Range: 800
Cooldown: 10
Manacost: 90/95/100/105

Fade Bolt Ability Code: A27G

3. Null Field (Hotkey: N)
Rubick's mastery of the arcane protects his allies against weaker magics, granting them magic resistance.

Magic Damage Reduction: 5/10/15/20%
AoE: 900

Null Field Ability Code: A27V

4. Ultimate - Spell Steal (Hotkey: Q):

Rubick studies the trace magical essence of one enemy hero, learning the secrets of the last spell the hero cast. Rubick can use this spell as his own for several minutes or until he dies.
Spell is stolen for: 3/4/5 minutes

Cast Range: 1000
Manacost: 25
Cooldown: 20/18/16

Note: If you steal another spell, the old one is lost. Both teams see what spell was stolen. Items cannot be stolen, only abilities. You will get a warning message when the spell steal duration is close to expiring.
Note 2: There are a small set of spell exceptions (for technical reasons) that cannot be copied.

Click here to check the list of Abilities which Rubick can't steal.

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2011-08-20T09:11:00.000-07:00

DotA 6.72f map is officially out. IceFrog has released yet another fix patch to end the dominating streak of annoying bugs. Once again, it fixes a only bug with Syllabear Spiritbear's Return ability which was not functioning properly. Hopefully, DotA 6.72f remains bug free so it doesn't interrupt further development of DotA 2.

DotA 6.72f Map Download:

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* Download the map file (.w3x) and extract it in your "Warcraft 3\Maps\Download" sub-folder.

DotA 6.72f Changelogs:

* Fixed a bug with Spirit Bear's Return

IceFrog has apologized to the fans for the recent bug patches. This map is rumored to be the last version as DotA 2 is expected to be released in fall this year. You can catch the latest DOTA 2 News on DotA 2 Utilities.

DotA Allstars 6.66b Download and Changelog

2011-08-20T09:07:00.000-07:00

DotA Allstars 6.66b was released. New Doom Bringer was nerfed so now he’s not so monstrous. A lot of bug fixes and other stuff that will make DotA one step closer to the ideal game.

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2011-08-20T09:06:00.001-07:00

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2011-08-16T10:05:00.000-07:00

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HoN (Heroes of Newerth) is now free to play.

2011-08-14T22:24:00.000-07:00

Heroes of Newerth is now free to play for those you that wanted to check the game out. Existing players now have legacy accounts and free accounts can work up to being verified and play in exclusive verified games. Download HoN for free and check the FAQ.

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2011-08-14T22:18:00.000-07:00

DotA Allstars 6.65 was released. A lot of changes, a lot of bug fixes and 2 brand new heroes! Alchemis was also reworked, so you have many things to explore in new DotA version

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Changelog:

New Heroes

New agility hero (Murloc Nightcrawler)

Range: 128
Movement Speed: 305
Hero Type: Agility

Agility: 21 + 2.0
Strength: 21 + 1.0
Intelligence: 16 + 1.6

Dark Pact:
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Slark calls upon deities of the swamps to seal a dark pact. Sacrificing some of his lifeblood, Slark is redeemed of all negative effects. After 2 seconds, a dark wave of destruction emits from the Nightcrawler, dealing damage to himself as well as all nearbyenemies.

Damage: 75/150/225/300
AoE: 325
Manacost: 55/50/45/40
Cooldown: 10

Deals half the damage to you immediately as part of the cost.

Pounce:
========
Surges directly forward and latches on to the first enemy he hits, binding it with chains of darkness. The enemy is unable to move more than 275 distance away from the point of impact for 3.5 seconds.

Pounce Range: 400/500/600/700
Pounce Damage: 50/75/100/125
Leash Range: 275
Leash Duration: 3.5

Cooldown: 16
Manacost: 75

Note: Moves forward in the direction it is looking, this is not a target position cast.

Essence Shift:
===============
Passive.

Reciting ancient Nightcrawler incantations, Slark enchants his blade to steal the power and courage from his enemies. Every time Slark hits an enemy hero, he steals 1 point from all attributes and 1 additional from the main attribute of that enemy hero while Slark gains 4 points ofAgility.

Duration: 15/30/45/60

Shadow Dance:
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Has an active and a passive portion.

Covers himself with a dark smoke, he becomes invisible and does not reveal himself while attacking or casting spells for 5.5 seconds.

Passively increases Nightcrawler’s movement speed and regeneration when he is out of sight of hostile units. Has a 0.7 delay when activated or deactivated.

Movement Speed: 30/35/40%
Health Regeneration: 2/3/4%

Active duration: 5.5 seconds
Cooldown: 25
Manacost: 120

New intelligence hero (Ancient Apparition)

Range: 600
Movement Speed: 295
Hero Type: Intelligence

Agility: 20 + 2.2
Strength: 18 + 1.4
Intelligence: 25 + 2.6

Custom hero model by PrMosquito

Cold Feet:
==========
The Apparition curses his foes with The Frozen Mark which will freeze enemies to the ground. Unless target enemy moves at least 740 away from the mark within 4 seconds he is frozen still.

Damage per second: 37.5/50/62.5/75
Stun duration if triggered: 1.25/2/2.75/3.5

Cooldown: 15/13/11/9
Manacost: 90

Single Target Spell

Note: Target takes damage per second until he is stunned or moves out of range.

Ice Vortex:
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Gathers ancient frost energy into one area to create a small, immobile ice vortex at a location. Whenever enemies are near it, their movement speed and magical resistance are reduced.

Movement Reduction: 18/22/26/30
Magic Resistance: -10/15/20/25
AOE: 275

Duration: 12
Cooldown: 6
Manacost: 80/90/100/110

Chilling Touch:
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Releases a gust of cold wind at a target area, enchanting allied heroes with bonus magical damage on their attacks. Lasts for a limited number of attacks up to a maximum of 40 seconds. While the enchanted heroes have this chilling touch, their attack speed is reduced by 15%.

Maximum number of attacks: 2/3/4/5
Bonus Damage: 40/50/60/70
Attack Speed Reduction: -15%

Cooldown: 50/46/42/38
Manacost: 140

Note: Damage only triggers on enemy heroes, not creeps.

Ice Blast:
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Ancient Apparition projects his presence out to make way for a powerful ripple of hailstone and dark magic. Once cast, it can release the spell to strike targets within 200 area of where his presence was upon release. It will deal damage to enemy units and apply a frostbite curse on them for 7 seconds where their health regeneration will be frozen and will shatter if they fall close enough to death. This spell has global range depending on how long you wait for the projections to move. Frostbitten units will take minor damage over time.

Impact Damage: 250/350/450
Shatter Threshold: 10/11/12%

Cooldown: 44/32/20
Manacost: 100/125/150

Note: You can charge (non-channeling, time based) this as long as you want if you want it to travel further outwards. Has an initial aoe of 200, but increases by a small amount the further it travels.

Hero Changes

Alchemist
- Reworked Unstable Concoction

Razzil brews up an unstable concoction that he can throw at an enemy hero, to stun and deal damage. Once Razzil starts brewing, he can continue for up to 5 seconds. Each second of brewing will increase the potency of the concoction and make Razzil more red. After the 5 seconds, there is a small buffer window. If Razzil does not throw the concoction soon after it will blow up and Razzil himself will suffer as if he was hit by the concoction. Concoction can blow up mid air if fired too late.

Charge Duration: up to 5 seconds
Buffer Duration: 1.5
Damage: Up to 150/200/250/300 (Physical damage type)
Stun: Up to 1/2/3/4 seconds
Cooldown: 16
Manacost: 90

The longer it charges up, the more damage and stun it deals. Listed values are the maximum.

Note: This is hero only target spell. You cannot release it if there isn’t a visible target nearby (if you don’t release it on time, it explodes on you instead, damage and stunning you). After casting, it builds up for 5 seconds. There is a small buffer duration after that.

Note 2: Alchemist has a red counter that counts down from 5 ontop of his head. Everyone can see this. It will be clear to the enemy when you are charging this.

Anti-Mage
- Mana Void cooldown reduced from 120/100/80 to 70
- Mana Break scaling increased from 16/32/48/64 to 28/40/52/64

Bone Fletcher
- Searing Arrows cooldown from 2/2/0/0 to 2/0/0/0

Bounty Hunter
- Reworked Jinada

Old Jinada:
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Passive.

Crit: 1.25/1.5/1.75/2.0x
Crit Chance: 15%

Evasion: 5/10/15/20%
Evasion Chance: 15%

New Jinada:
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Passive. Adds a critical strike and small maim to your next attack. Has a cooldown.

Critical Strike: 1.4/1.6/1.8/2.0x
Maim: 25% MS/AS for 3 seconds

Cooldown: 22/17/12/7

Blood Seeker
- Bloodrage Rebalanced from 6/9/12/15 duration and 10 cd to 6/7/8/9 duration and 12/10/8/6 cd. HP loss at a constant 20 hp per sec.

Broodmother
- Spiderlings gold bounty increased from 6-8 to 11-13 and XP bounty increased from 12 to 20

Chaos Knight
- Cast Point Improved
- Reworked his Blink Strike (7225)

Reality Rift:
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Target an enemy unit. Teleports you, any images you have and the enemy unit to a random point along the line between the two of you. Gives you bonus attack damage for one attack.

Cast Range: 550/600/650/700
Bonus Attack Damage: 25/50/75/100 (for one attack)
Cooldown: 24/18/12/6
Manacost: 50

Note: Chance is weighted, more likely to appear near center +/- 200 than on the extremes.

Dark Seer
- Vacuum cast range decreased from 800 to 550
- Vacuum damage decreased from 60/120/180/240 to 40/80/120/160

Death Prophet
- Witchcraft’s movement bonus has been restored (3/6/9/12%)

Furion
- Force of Nature’s Treants now have 33% spell resistance

Lina
- Fiery Soul buff duration increased from 5 to 7 seconds

Leshrac
- Movement speed increased from 300 to 310

Medusa
- Stone Gaze cooldown increased to 100

N’aix
- Movement speed increased from 300 to 315

Night Stalker
- Void manacost decreased from 90/112/130/145 to 80/90/100/110

Panda
- Lowered Fire Panda armor by 2 points, hp from 900/1350/1800/2200 to 1200 and reworked damage from 52/105/214/234 to 70/112/140/180
- Primal Split cooldown from 180/150/120/90 to 180/160/140/120

Priestess of the Moon
- Starfall AoE increased by 50 to fix issues with it not hitting units on the edge of your attack

Pudge
- Meat Hook scaling rebalanced. Cast range from 400/600/800/1000 to 550/700/850/1000, cd from 14 to 14/13/12/11 and manacost from 140 to 110/120/130/140

Pugna
- Cast Point improved
- Decrepify can now be cast on Nether Ward

Queen of Pain
- Base Intelligence increased by 5

Razor
- Agi growth decreased from 2.5 to 2.0
- Strength grown decreased from 1.9 to 1.7
- Eye of the Storm mana cost increased from 100 to 100/150/200

Shadow Priest
- Shallow Grave cooldown increased from 54/40/26/12 to 60/45/30/15

Silencer
- Base damage modified a little from 39-61 to 43-57

Sniper
- Shrapnel duration decreased from 10 to 8 seconds
- Shrapnel AoE decreased from 450 to 325

Spectre
- Dispersion now spreads the reflected damage over the number of nearby heroes. So it is the same in a 1v1 case, but greatly reduced in team fights.

Twin Head Dragon
- Ice Path stun rescaled from 0.8/1.2/1.6/2.0 to 1.00/1.33/1.66/2.0
- Ice Path cooldown scales from 16 to 16/15/14/13
- Macropyre spawn speed improved

Ursa
- Overpower is no longer removed when BKB is activated
- Overpower will not interrupt your movement when cast

Warlock
- Upheaval cooldown increased from 20 to 65 seconds

Visage
- Reworked hero (124153)

Range: 600
Movement Speed: 295
Hero Type: Intelligence

Agility: 11 + 1.3
Strength: 20 + 2.2
Intelligence: 21 + 2.5

Grave Chill:
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Visage drains the life from a target, slowing its attack and move speed by 32%. He then gets bonuses equal to those drained.

Stolen MS & AS: 32
Duration: 3/4/5/6 (for both you and the target)
Manacost: 70/80/90/100
Cooldown 10

Soul Assumption:
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Visage sends out a surge of agony towards an enemy unit, echoing the suffering that nearby heroes (foe or allied) have taken. For each 130 damage taken around him, his soul counter increases by one for up to 6 seconds.

Deals 20 damage + 60 for each charge.

Max Soul Counters: 3/4/5/6
Cooldown: 7/6/5/4
Manacost: 100/120/140/160

Note: Does not count damage taken from creeps. Charges when either allied heroes or enemy heroes take damage. Damage only has a 6 second window.

Gravekeeper’s Cloak:
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Passive.

Visage surrounds himself with the magical energy of the dead, granting extra physical armor and magic damage resistance. However, the energy degenerates with every instance of damage taken and will require time to recover back to full strength. Has 4 layers.

Armor per layer: 2/3/4/5
Magic Resistance per layer: 4/8/12/16

Cloak Recovery: 14/12/10/8 seconds

Instances: 4

Note: This is only affected by player based damage.

Summon Familiars:
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Visage conjures up two blind Familiars from the realm of death. Familiars have high attack power but each attack, up to 6, drains their power and temporarily weakens them.

Familiars can transform into stone, stunning nearby enemy units upon landing and regenerating their health and attack power. Familiars give a large bounty (150 each) if killed.

Level 1: Up to 72 attack damage, 300 HP, 1 second stun.
Level 2: Up to 90 attack damage 400 HP, 1.25 second stun.
Level 3: Up to 108 attack damage 500 HP, 1.5 second stun.

Familiars take reduced damage from spells.

Stoneform Cooldown: 30

Summon Cooldown: 160
Summon Manacost: 150

Note: Can only have 2 Familiars up at any point.
Note 2: Stoned familiars are temporarily immune to damage, but they revert to normal form after 7 seconds
Note 3: Familiars will not autoattack enemies on their own, as to not consume their limited attack energy

Windrunner
- Windrunner cooldown improved from 30/25/20/15 to 15

Witch Doctor
- Paralyzing Casks now do 50 damage to heroes on each bounce

Item Changes

- Added a new recipe item (Urn of Shadows)

Requires:
- Sobi Mask (325)
- 2x Gauntlets of Strength (300)
- Recipe (250)
Total: 875

Provides:
+ 50% Mana Regeneration
+ 6 Strength
+ Active

Starts with 0 charges. Each time an enemy hero dies near you, it gains a charge. The first charges increments by 2, so it goes 0/2/3/4/5/etc
Each usage of the item decreases the charge by 1.

Each hero death can only charge up one of these items per death, so more than one hero having this will not increase the charges for both of the items.

Can be cast on an ally to heal, dispels on non-creep damage. Can alternatively be cast on an enemy hero to do half the heal (200) as damage over 8 seconds.

Heal: 400 HP over 8 seconds
Cooldown: 10

Scroll of Town Portal
- Reworked mechanics

- The casting time system for scroll teleports are now dynamic.
Whenever a hero teleports to an area, it causes any other teleports to that area to be delayed with extra time based on the number of heroes that teleported or are teleporting there. Each teleport leaves has memory lasts about 20 seconds for that location.

This does not affect teleports to the fountain area (it accounts for rough areas around shop area as well).

Example: First hero teleports to his tower, he takes the usual 3 seconds casting time. Then lets say the 3 other heroes teleport right after. The second one that telports after the original has a 5 second teleport time. Then 6 seconds, 7, etc.

- Teleport location effect no longer lies to the enemies about the landing spot

- Enemies now see the colors of the teleporting heroes

- Increases max range on where you can choose teleport near a building from 350 to 525

- The color of the teleport effect changes if you are in delayed teleport mode. It goes to normal once you have the standard 3 seconds left. So both sides can tell if its a quick or a delayed teleport and time things accoringly.

Aghanim’s Scepter
- Added support for Axe. Cooldown decreased from 75/65/55 to 20

Boots of Speed
- Now available in the side shops

Blademail
- Duration reduced from 5 to 3.5 seconds
- Cooldown increased from 15 to 25
- Blademail can no longer reflect blademail sourced damage

Force Staff
- Push distance increased from 500 to 600

Linken’s Sphere
- Properly blocks Unstable Concoction and Death Coil

Maelstrom
- Maelstrom attack speed bonus increased from 15 to 25

Planeswalker’s Cloak
- Price increased by 100

: Radiance
- AoE damage effect can now be toggled on and off

Vanguard
- Damage block reduced from 40 to 20 when equipped on ranged heroes (50% less block like stout and Poor Man’s Shield)

Gameplay & Cosmetics

* Readjusted the -bonus gold/xp system that is given in an aoe around dying heroes from being static unsplit to a dynamic split variation (numbers adjusted as well)

* Rebalanced the creep stats for your creeps when you kill an enemy rax

Old Melee:
XP Bounty: 41
Gold Bounty: 21-41

New Melee:
XP Bounty: 25
Gold Bounty: 18-26

Old Range:
XP Bounty: 25
Gold Bounty: 21-41

New Range:
XP Bounty: 25
Gold Bounty: 18-26

* Added a new small neutral camp (102473)
* Increase the buffer time in -CM from 45 to 60 seconds (This means 15 seconds total for each player, not 15 seconds for each turn)
* Added the new hero death timers to observer scoreboard title
* Reworked Recipe tooltips (128284)
* A text message and minimap indictator is now displayed when an ally purchases a Courier
* Observer board now shows ultimate cooldowns (120509)
* Added a new physical model for Gem of Truesight (124547)
* New and reworked heroes are temporarily unavailable in -CM

* Added a new visual effect when you have the Haste powerup (83240)
* A special death animation is now played when Pudge suicides (17542)
* Improved spawning location code for couriers, to help against minimap icon overlap
* Decreased cooldown on Courier Morph and added a mini techies courier (123947)
* Fixed Inner Beast buff icon
* Removed extra spikes that appear on some (except Leshrac) characters with Aghanims Scepter (11289)
* Added new sound effect for Scream of Pain
* Improved quality of Panda’s Thunderclap icon
* Removed the gorge in the terrain near the bottom sentinel lane
* Added visual effect for Huskar’s Scepter (20814)
* Some Nighstalker visual improvements (5227)
* Rotated the direction the Frozen Throne is facing (82193)
* Changed Scourge consumable shop model from Graveyard to Tomb of Relics (114591)
* Added hero pick/ban data to replays for -CD mode (same data format as -CM)
* Added hero pool information to replays for -CD mode (Format: Pool+index,id)
* Fixed hero death timer overwriting player name color for leavers

* Added a camera control command (-center) that locks the camera to your hero. -centeroff disables it (Not recommend for regular games)
* Clarified Ward tooltips
* Fixed lots of typos
* Replay Data: host playerid is 0 if the game was created using HCL automode
* Adjusted where the kill timer shows on the open scoreboard. Names are always visible now.
* Some minor code optimizations when heroes are picked
* Invoker: Forged Spirit units are now added to your control group when created
* Invoker: Added an Ally/Observer only visual effect that plays before sun strike lands

* New icon for Essence Aura
* New icon for Darkness
* New icon for Desolate
* New icon for Void (126145)
* New icon for Enchant (126145)
* New icon for Impetus (126145)
* New icon for Nature’s Attendants (126145)
* New icon for Backtrack (126145)
* New icon for SA’s Blink Strike (126145)
* New icon for Crystal Nova (118362)
* New icon for Death Ward (126145)
* New icon for Divided We Stand (126145)
* New icon for Dual Breath (126145)
* New icon for EMP (126145)
* New icon for Exorcism (126145)
* New icon for Geostrike (126145)
* New icon for Impale NA (126145)
* New icon for Juxtapose (108662)
* New icon for Phantom Edge (108662)
* New icon for Malefice (126145)
* New icon for Reaper’s Scythe (126145)
* New icon for Timelock (126145)
* New icon for Timewalk (126145)
* New icon for Invoke Tornado (126145)
* New icon for Last Word (126145)
* New icon for Amplify Damage (126145)
* New icon for Jinada (105435)
* New icon for Track (105435)

Bugs Fixes

* Fixed bug with swapping with Kunkka and getting Quelling Blade
* Fixed Kraken Shell not getting disabled when Doomed
* Fixed an area where you could TP and become stuck
* Fixed a bug with Forged Spirits dying when getting an allied War Cry buff
* Fixed a recent issue with Frost Arrows cast range
* Fixed Eul’s movement speed bonus not functioning correctly sometimes (if your hero has a unit morphing ability)
* Fixed a minor bug with Ursa’s Enrage + Fury Swipes combo against Vanguard
* Fixed some Ion Shell stacking bugs

Crixalis - The Sand KingCrixalis

2011-08-12T19:41:00.000-07:00

Tavern: Twilight Tavern (scourge)

Powerful combat hero that is at home with the earth.

Base stats

Calculated stats (Level 1)

Str:	18	+2.30
Agil:	19	+2.10
Intel:	16	+1.80

Range:	128(Melee)
MSpd:	300

ArmorB:	1
ACoolB:	1.38 [S]
Dmg:	25 - 41

HP:	492
HPReg:	0.79 [HP/S]

Mana:	208
MReg:	0.65 [M/S]


Armor:	3.66
AttSpd:	0.86 [At/S]
Dmg:	43 - 59








DRed:	18.01 %
DPS:	44.0 [Dmg/S]

Burrowstrike
The Sand King burrows into the ground, tunnels forward impaling everything above him, then surfaces.

Level 1	140 -	100 damage, 400 maximum range.
Level 2	140 -	160 damage, 500 maximum range.
Level 3	140 -	220 damage, 600 maximum range.
Level 4	140 -	280 damage, 700 maximum range.

Sand Storm
Sand King creates a fearsome Sand Storm. The storm blinds his enemies and he becomes invisible to them. In the same time his opponents take damage.

Level 1	60 -	5 damage per second, 200 AOE, invisability lasts 20 seconds
Level 2	50 -	10 damage per second, 250 AOE, invisability lasts 40 seconds
Level 3	40 -	15 damage per second, 300 AOE, invisability lasts 60 seconds
Level 4	30 -	20 damage per second, 350 AOE, invisability lasts 80 seconds

Caustic Finale
Each of the Sand King's attack injects a deadly venom that causes the target to explode violently on death, dealing damage in an area.

Level 1	-	90 damage.
Level 2	-	130 damage.
Level 3	-	170 damage.
Level 4	-	220 damage.

Epicenter
Sends a disturbance into the earth, causing it to shudder violently. All caught within range will take damage and slowed. The closer to the epicenter, the more damage taken.

Level 1	175 -	2.0 second casting time, 6 pulses of 110 damage.
Level 2	250 -	2.0 second casting time, 8 pulses of 110 damage.
Level 3	325 -	2.0 second casting time, 10 pulses of 110 damage.

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Mogul Kahn The Axe

2011-08-11T02:56:00.000-07:00

Mogul Kahn
The Axe
Tavern: Twilight Tavern (scourge)

In the war of Humans and Orcs that occured long ago many Orcish warriors were corrupted by demonic influence and became tools of blackest darkness. One such warrior was the leader of the Half-Tribe of the Bloodied Axe Clan; Mogul Kahn. Mogul was slain by human Paladins but mysteriously was seen fighting alongside the Scourge around the time Mannaroth started to command the Orcs in the war against Archimonde. The Axe has been revived by demons and uses his reflexes and powerful blows to hunt down and seek out the Sentinels\ agile warriors and cut them down to size, even projecting his lust for war onto them.

Base stats

Calculated stats (Level 1)

Str:	19	+2.50
Agil:	22	+2.20
Intel:	14	+1.60

Range:	100(Melee)
MSpd:	290

ArmorB:	-1
ACoolB:	1.33 [S]
Dmg:	24 - 28

HP:	511
HPReg:	0.82 [HP/S]

Mana:	182
MReg:	0.57 [M/S]


Armor:	2.08
AttSpd:	0.92 [At/S]
Dmg:	43 - 47








DRed:	11.10 %
DPS:	41.3 [Dmg/S]

Berserker's Call
Mogul Kahn focuses all of his enemy's hatred on him, causing them to attack him at all costs. 275 AOE.

Level 1	80 -	Lasts 1.5 seconds, 5 bonus armor.
Level 2	90 -	Lasts 2 seconds, 10 bonus armor.
Level 3	100 -	Lasts 2.5 seconds, 15 bonus armor.
Level 4	110 -	Lasts 3 seconds, 20 bonus armor.

Battle Hunger
Afflicts a target with a terrible killing hunger. The target will take damage per second until it kills a unit.

Level 1	105 -	15 damage/second, lasts 10 seconds.
Level 2	115 -	15 damage/second, lasts 15 seconds.
Level 3	125 -	20 damage/second, lasts 20 seconds.
Level 4	135 -	25 damage/second, lasts 25 seconds.

Counter Helix
Mogul Kahn counters some blows made to him by taking the attacking unit and swinging it around violently, dealing damage to all nearby enemy units. 15% chance to counter throughout all levels.

Level 1	-	100 damage.
Level 2	-	125 damage.
Level 3	-	150 damage.
Level 4	-	175 damage

Culling Blade
Purges the weak from Mogul Kahn's sight. Deals moderate damage, but will kill a target that is low on life.

Level 1	120 -	Deals 150 damage, will kill if target is below 300.
Level 2	160 -	Deals 250 damage, will kill if target is below 450.
Level 3	200 -	Deals 300 damage, will kill if target is below 625.

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Strygwyr : The Bloodseeker

2011-08-11T01:33:00.000-07:00

Strygwyr
The Bloodseeker
Tavern: Twilight Tavern (scourge)

Half demon, half human, Strygwyr is an outcast among all forms of life. Welcomed by the Scourge, he uses his ability to control his enemies\ life force to kill all that cross him.

Base stats

Calculated stats (Level 1)

Str:	18	+2.00
Agil:	24	+2.60
Intel:	18	+1.70

Range:	100(Melee)
MSpd:	305

ArmorB:	2
ACoolB:	1.29 [S]
Dmg:	53 - 59

HP:	492
HPReg:	0.79 [HP/S]

Mana:	234
MReg:	0.73 [M/S]


Armor:	5.36
AttSpd:	0.96 [At/S]
Dmg:	77 - 83








DRed:	24.33 %
DPS:	76.9 [Dmg/S]

Bloodrage
Provokes another unit into an unsatiable rage for blood. That unit is unable to cast spells, has its attack damage increased, and loses a small amount of hit points every second.

Level 1	80 -	20% damage increase, loses 2 HP per second. 6 seconds.
Level 2	100 -	40% damage increase, loses 4 HP per second. 9 seconds.
Level 3	120 -	60% damage increase, loses 6 HP per second. 12 seconds.
Level 4	140 -	80% damage increase, loses 8 HP per second. 15 seconds.

Blood Bath
Whenever Strygwyr kills a unit, he bathes himself in the blood, regenerating his life source.

Level 1	-	10% of the Hero's max hp. 5% for creeps.
Level 2	-	20% of the Hero's max hp. 10% for creeps.
Level 3	-	30% of the Hero's max hp. 15% for creeps.
Level 4	-	40% of the Hero's max hp. 20% for creeps.

Strygwyr's Thirst
Enables Strygwyr to detect the bleeding of any hero below 50% hp. If it finds one, Strygwyr gains vision of that unit and increases move speed. Lasts 30 seconds.

Level 1	100 -	11% movement increase.
Level 2	100 -	22% movement increase.
Level 3	100 -	33% movement increase.
Level 4	100 -	44% movement increase.

Rupture
Deals a mighty blow to the enemy causing any movement to result in bleeding and loss of life.

Level 1	150 -	150 damage, 20% of distance moved in damage. Lasts 5 seconds.
Level 2	200 -	250 damage, 40% of distance moved in damage. Lasts 7 seconds.
Level 3	250 -	350 damage, 60% of distance moved in damage. Lasts 9 seconds.

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Abaddon - The Lord of Avernus

2011-08-11T01:20:00.000-07:00

Abaddon
The Lord of Avernus
Tavern: Twilight Tavern (scourge)

A former paladin of great renown, Abaddon fell into darkness during the invasion of the Burning Legion, becoming possessed by many demons, corrupting both his soul and his powers. Equipped with a soul stealing sword given to him by the Lich King, he rides into battle against impossible odds, never stopping until he slays his intended target. Whether he is enhanching his own fortitude with a shield of dark energy, or shrugging off damage as if it were nothing but a minor annoyance, the Lord of Avernus leads the armies of the Scourge ever onward, forever locked in combat with the forces of good, and his enemies who were once his greatest comrades.

Base stats

Calculated stats (Level 1)

Str:	23	+2.70
Agil:	17	+1.50
Intel:	17	+2.00

Range:	100(Melee)
MSpd:	295

ArmorB:	2
ACoolB:	1.48 [S]
Dmg:	32 - 42

HP:	587
HPReg:	0.94 [HP/S]

Mana:	221
MReg:	0.69 [M/S]


Armor:	4.38
AttSpd:	0.79 [At/S]
Dmg:	55 - 65








DRed:	20.81 %
DPS:	47.4 [Dmg/S]

Aphotic Shield
Summons dark energies around an ally unit/structure, creating a shield that absorbs a set amount of damage before expiring. When the shield is destroyed it will deal damage equal to the amount it absorbed to an area around it. If cast on self while using borrowed time, the damage you take will heal you. Lasts 30 seconds.

Level 1	100 -	100 damage.
Level 2	100 -	150 damage.
Level 3	100 -	200 damage.
Level 4	100 -	250 damage.

Mark of the Abyss
Marks a target unit, binding Abaddon to it. Abaddon will gain a boost in attack speed. You cannot stop attacking until either you or the mark die. Your pathing will not be blocked by other units during this time.

Level 1	100 -	25% IAS.
Level 2	100 -	50% IAS.
Level 3	100 -	75% IAS.
Level 4	100 -	100% IAS.

Frostmourne
Empowers the legendary sword with the ability to reduce targets speed.

Level 1	-	7% speed reduction.
Level 2	-	14% speed reduction.
Level 3	-	21% speed reduction.
Level 4	-	28% speed reduction.

Borrowed Time
Whenever you take damage and your hitpoints drop below 400 you will no longer lose hitpoints. This ability will only go off once every minute max.

Level 1	-	Lasts 4 seconds.
Level 2	-	Lasts 5 seconds.
Level 3	-	Lasts 6 seconds.

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Dota strategy

2011-08-11T01:08:00.000-07:00

Dota Allstars is a very complex game, although there are many dota hero guides available, there is more to dota than implementing what you have read in a pudge dota guide – A guide to the Butcher for example. What do you do when you get ganked? Could you have avoided the gank? Knowing when to back and retreat to a safe location or base is very important and this can be a nightmare for some dota players.

Also your items shouldn’t be a clone to those associated to in a guide, you should not be purchasing the same item set for that hero in every dota game. You will have to adjust your items accordingly to actually benefit against your enemy hero. For example, you don’t want to get furion an Eye of Skadi when you’re up against anti-mage (magina) Because magina will just chew the bonus mana from skadi away rapidly thus pure damaging/stealing 64 mana per hit for a longer period and further fuelling her ultimate, Mana Void. The more appropriate items would be Guinsoo’s Scythe of Vyse aka sheepstick to hex/disable her. Or a Heart of Terrasque, to withstand more hits along with Blademail, to simply return the damage back. Knowing if you should get these items and when to use it depends on how skillful the anti mage is along with other factors, such as having enough hex/disabling allied heroes. Maybe it’s time to go add some strong damage per second items aka as DPS. Then you might implement a Monkey King Bar into your build, especially if your opponent has evasion of some sort because Mkb has a special bonus, True Strike, which prevents your opponents from dodging any of your physical attacks.

DotA Phoenix: Icarus The Phoenix Guide, Strategy & Build

2011-07-19T21:02:00.000-07:00

. Icarus is another addition to the Sentinel Strength hero along with Tuskarr in DotA 6.70. This post will provide you with the Phoenix Skill Description, the Phoenix Guide, the Icarus Strategy, the Icarus Item Build and Icarus the Phoenix Skill Build.

Ancient scriptures spoke of seven sacred emanations of light, and of their convergence in great conflict. The collision of these rays upon the mortal realm created a pyre of the highest purity, giving birth to the mythical Phoenix. As a manifestation of divine flames, Icarus can discharge either flames of death and destruction, or of life and healing. The concentrated beam of energy that he can emit can incinerate whole armies from across the battlefield. Unafraid to utilize his own life-force in order to vanquish his enemies, Icarus can also harness the direct power of the sun to create a stellar explosion.

Alliance: Sentinel

Strength: 22 + 2.9 (Primary)
Agility: 12 + 1.3
Intelligence: 18 + 1.8

Base Damage: 56-64
Starting Armor: 0
Movement Speed: 290
Attack Range: 500

Icarus The Phoenix Skill Descriptions

Icarus Dive

Phoenix dives forward in an arc with a fixed distance in the targeted direction, dealing damage and disarming any units he comes into contact with, and then orbiting back to his original position. If during the 2 second duration of this spell Phoenix casts another spell, the dive ends. Phoenix gains magic immunity for this brief dive period as well. Costs 10% of current HP to cast.

Damage: 100/150/200/250
Disarm Duration: 2/2.5/3/3.5

Travel Range: 1400
Travel Width: 500
Total Travel Time: 2 seconds

Cooldown: 40
Manacost: 100
HP Cost: 10% of current HP

Note: You can also press the same hotkey or another skill or stop hotkey anytime to end the dive

A cool move which allow you to damage and yet gaining magic immunity for 2 seconds. It can also be used as escape mechanism, just immediately press the same hotkey to stop on desired location. Also an effective measure to ruin enemy gank by prevent them to attack for several seconds. Cost you some HP though.

Fire Spirits

Born out of his own life force, Icarus creates 4 fire spirits to fly alongside him. Each spirit slowly grows in power and can be used to damage his enemies or heal his allies. Costs 10% of your current HP to cast.

Maximum Growth Time: 10 seconds

Spirit Minimum Damage/Heal:10/15/20/25
Spirit Maximum Damage/Heal: 40/60/80/100
Spirit AOE: 400

Subability Cast Range: 1200
Manacost: 75
Cooldown: 35
HP Cost: 10% of current HP

Note: The target subability fires off each spirit one at a time. It has no cooldown. If you let them expire without ordering them, they sacrifice themselves where they are.

Another unique skill from Phoenix. You can attack or healing with the spirits. You must direct each summon to your target. For maximum benefits, cast this and wait several seconds before engaging the enemy. Don't forget that the spirits AoE is pretty decent, so you can gather and heal several heroes at one time.

Sun Ray

Drawing from his own inner fire, Icarus expels a huge beam of light at the cost of his own life energy. The beam slows and damages enemies for a percentage of their life. Costs 25% of current HP to activate.

Upon casting, you lose the ability to attack or move directly. Ray extends out to the first hero it finds and burns it and a very small area around it.

Can be toggled on and off.

Slow: 14/20/26/32%
Slow duration: 2 seconds
Damage per second: 10/20/30/40 + 4% of Target's Max Life

Activation Health Cost: 25% Current HP
Activation Mana Cost: 10
Overtime Mana Cost: 4% of Max

You have another sub ability that you can toggle to allow you to drift towards the direction of the ray.

PS: You control the direction of the ray using right click and the beam will move towards that angle. Automatically shuts off if you are silenced or stunned

This move is remind me of Cyclops from the X-Men. The damage is quite huge, however you won't be able to move freely when you cast this make the Sun Ray as the hardest Phoenix's skill to use.

Icarus the Phoenix Ultimate

Supernova

The Phoenix willingly ends his current life for the chance to be reborn. Transforms into a burning sun that scorches enemies within 1000 range. The sun can be attacked by enemy heroes; if it is destroyed, the Phoenix dies as well. However, if the sun survives for 6 seconds all enemies in range will be stunned and the Phoenix will return to life fully regenerated.

Hero Attacks Required (to kill sun): 5/7/9
Duration: 6

Burn AOE: 1000
Damage: 60/80/100 dps
Stun: 1.5/2/2.5

Cooldown: 110
Manacost: 200

We already saw this skill on DotA 6.69 Phoenix Quest. A situational skill which can either killed you or change the tide of battle. You can use it with another massive disable like Black Hole for maximum benefit. You can also use it on the fog to prevent the enemy hit you easily. Another combo is by using Icarus Dive before Supernova which prevent the enemies to hit you for several seconds.

Icarus The Phoenix Skill Build
1. Icarus Dive
2. Fire Spirits
3. Fire Spirits
4. Icarus Dive or Sun Ray
5. Fire Spirits
6. Supernova
7. Fire Spirits
8. Icarus Dive
9. Icarus Dive
10. Sun Ray or Icarus Dive
11. Supernova
12. Sun Ray
13. Sun Ray
14. Sun Ray
15. Stats
16. Supernova
17-25. Stats

Icarus Dive can be an escape mechanism on early game. Maximize Fire Spirits for a quick and massive heal. You can use it for early ganking too. Then choose to maximize Icarus Dive or pick a lvl 1 Sun Ray depend on your playstyle. Always take Supernova whenever it can be taken. The last part is maximizing Sun Ray and stats.

Icarus The Phoenix Item Build

1. 3x ironwood branch, Magic Stick, 4x Clarity Potion
2. Boots of Speed
3. Finish Magic Wand
4. Finish Arcane Boots
5. Medallion of Courage

Icarus' core item should be like this:

Magic Wand - Obviously used for instant regen (HP and Mana). Best when enemy has spell users.

Power Treads - Give some str (which mean HP and damage), MS, and AS. Good for increasing your dps but will reduce your spell usage cause your limited mana. Its not a problem cause you can change it onto int Treads everytime you want.

Medallion of Courage - Provide you with armor and mana regeneration which are you lack on early game. It also have an active ability for reducing an enemy's armor by 6. Very useful for ganking.

Boots of Travel - Using your Fire Spirits you can do easy farming in early game. Teleport to bunches of enemys creeps and ka-ching, your sacrificed Fire Spirits would turn into gold.

Arcane Boots - An alternative to Treads. You will need when you want to be a supporter. Use this to replenish your mana.

Bracer - an optional item. You can purchase this item for additional stats. Can be upgraded to Janggo of Endurance later which is good for positive aura.

Hood of Deviance - a situational item. Very useful when enemy's team has good nukers. Plus HP regen. Can be upgraded to Khadgar's of Insight.

Luxury late game items:

Shiva's Guard - Unlimited mana, Nice armor, Aoe nuke and slow. An absolute item for Icarus.

Assault Cuirass - Gives you armor and it's IAS is AOE. Plus armor reducer which make your enemies suffer. Perfect item for late game.

Heart of Tarrasque - good item for survivability during battle because it gives huge amount of HP. Also +40 damage boost for a strength hero like Icarus.

Buriza do Kyanon/ MKB - DPS items. No need further informations. Just choose one of these ancient Weapons and you can be a DPS machine.

Satanic - Another EHP boost item. Gives you lifesteal, HP, armor, and damage. Plus 3.5 seconds of 175% lifesteal is always welcomed.

Icarus The Phoenix Strategy

You can pick this hero when your team needs supporter, nuker, late carry, or supporting chaser.

You need to be supported by:
- Mass Disablers :
Just to make sure your Fire Spirits or ulti land into the right target without scratch on your body. It will be enemy's nightmare when Supernova lands together with Overgrowth or Blackhole. You can also combo your skills with Chronosphere.

Beware of his counter:
- Attack speed boosters:
such as Jah'rakal, Ursa, and Syllabear. They will ruin your ulti in no time.
- Silencers and Manabreakers:
can't do anything except do normal attacks. Including Lucifer the Doom Bringer, a hero with an awesome spell which is troublesome for a spell depended hero like Icarus. No escape or ulti means death.
- Dps heroes with silence skill:
such as Traxex or Rikimaru.
- Heroes with illusions ability (including manta carrier):
Their mirror's hit counted on your ulti. So be very-very careful if you fought this kind of heroes.

On early minutes, lane with your teammate. Or if theres no one want the mid just take it. Consider you are slow cause confused to pick a hero (-ap,-se,-rd mode) or items (-ar mode). lol. Focus on farming and denying. It will be best if you can harass and dominate the lane. Remember that Icarus dive is your only escape mechanism this phase of the game and its drain your mana a lot with little nuke damage, so dont use it too much. Instead use Fire Spirits to harass while healing you and your teammate. Try to not push the lane unnecessarily. If you go mid lane and get to above lvl 6, you can try to gank a lower level heroes. The combo is simple. Use your Fire Spirits in approximate 1200 range from your target. Wait for about 6 secs or above. Just before the spirits get big, then Icarus Diving and stop as close as you can from your target (max 400 range). If youre not close enough just walk into them. For maximum damage, dive then stop behind them and keep attack them while the clock ticking. For several seconds, your Fire Spirits will sacrifice themselves. Makes your enemies in range feel the damage and perhaps die. Of course It will be more effective with help of your teammates.

In the middle of the game, You can stop farming. Do gank almost every chance of this phase of time. You can go with your partner or solo if you see some low-HP heroes in the side lanes. Use your ulti effectively so you dont die when your Supernova is pop-up in the middle of battle. But in this phase you'll be dominator of the game if you can use the maxed Fire Spirits well. Still, farming is needed to gain gold and push the lanes. Use your Fire Spirits Aoe damage for fast killing creeps. When the other team feels their defense is in the pinch, they'll try to help. And this is your chance to send em back to their fountain (you always call this death :P).

Late game is the time for Icarus to change his strategy. He is not as strong as when he is in the mid-game. So stay safe and help your teammates when team clashes occurs. This phase of the game let you use your Sun Ray a lot. Cause when maxed, this skill is very powerful to make that enemy tank or carry burned to death. Or at least slowed him down so your carry teammate can easy kill him (exept for blinkers and windwalkers and escape mechanism carrier).

Based on: Playdota Guide

This post contain Icarus Guide & Build - The Phoenix Strategy. If you have different build or strategy, you can give your comments or make your own guide on the Phoenix Forum.

Razor Guide - the Lightning Revenant Strategy

2011-07-18T07:03:00.000-07:00

The Lightning Revenant skills is totally remade on Dota 6.60. That makes the previous guide about Razor is obsolete. This post will cover Razor the Lightning Revenant new skills, ability, skills build and items build. Despite of that, many people say that now Razor is imba. Let's check the new stuff.

Base Stats
Strength: 17 +1.9
Agility: 22 +2.5
Intelligence: 19 + 2.2

Attack Range: 475
Movement Speed: 295

Plasma Field

Razor releases a wave energetic plasma which grows in power as it extends outwards. Deals damage to units both on expansion and on contraction. The further the plasma is from razor the more energy it has.

Minimum Charge Damage: 40/60/80/100
Max Charge Damage:70/105/140/175
Speed: 800
AOE: 600

Cooldown: 16
Manacost: 125

Note: This can hit a unit once going out and once coming back in. Charge increases to max going outwards, then decreases to min coming inwards. This is a full circle AOE effect, a radius of small electrical effects travel outwards. It spawns from where you are and moves out with you.

Static Link

Taps into the energy of a target hero, creating a charged link between Razor and his foe. As long as this link is maintained, Razor will continue to steal damage from the target and adds it to his own.

Attack damage stolen per second: 5/10/15/20
Max link time: 10
Stolen duration: 13 seconds from link break.

Cast Range: 600
Break Range: 700

Manacost: 20/30/40/50
Cooldown: 45/40/35/30

Note: If you target a point on the ground, it will move in that path and lock onto the first hero it reaches. You have vision over the link itself.

Unstable current

Passive. Increases the movement speed and reflects a static charge whenever targeted, dealing damage and purging the unit briefly.

Movement Bonus: 3/6/9/12%
Damage: 40/60/80/100
Purge Duration: 0.3/0.6/0.9/1.2

Note: Does not trigger on attack orbs like Poison Attack or Frost Arrows

Eye Of the storm

The Lightning Revenant calls upon a powerful storm of crackling energy, which strikes weakened enemies with deadly bolts of lightning. The storm is charged with Razor's malevolent will, and will seek out only the most injured targets for its armor shattering blasts.

Damage: 37.5/50/62.5
Interval: 0.85/0.75/0.6
AOE: 500
Armor reduction per hit: 1 (stacks)

Duration: 20/25/30
Manacost: 100
Cooldown: 80/70/60

Damage dealt is physical. Only targets units in your vision.
This storm stops if Razor dies. Targets the lowest HP unit in the area.

Skills Build
Lv 1 : Plasma Field
Lv 2 : Unstable Current/Static Link
Lv 3 : Plasma Field
Lv 4 : Static Link/Unstable Current
Lv 5 : Plasma Field
Lv 6 : Eye of the Storm
Lv 7 : Plasma Field
Lv 8-10 : Unstable Current
Lv 11 : Eye of the Storm
Lv 12-14: Static Link
Lv15: Stats
Lv 16: Eye of the Storm
Lv 17-25: Stats

Plasma Field is maxing first as it's your primary nuke and farming tools. The second skill choice is depends on your enemies. If your enemies is melee, Static Link will be a good tool to increase your damage with cheap mana and improve last hitting. Not to mention the enemy damage also will be reduced. If your enemies are range, it's harder to cast and maintain the link. But still, take it on level 4 just in case a close battle is happen, this spell could be handy and the mana cost is really cheap.

Unstable Current is maxed after Plasma Field because you will benefits from the speed bonus and the purge will help you from escaping enemies gank. Static Link and Eye of the Storm is need to maintained within the range, hence Unstable Current will help you chase and keep the distance.

Eye of the Storm taken as soon as possible. When chasing or ganking activate it. This skill is not too efective if there's a lot of enemy creeps, because it will attack the lowest target instead of hero. But if there's nobody else there, your enemy will be crying while hitted by the storm. This skill also gives you a lot of kill on team battle, because it will automatically hit enemy with the lowest HP

Item Build

Luxuries

Buy a BKB if your enemies has many disabler, they will want you die fast on team battle because of your ultimate. If they lack of disabler, skip BKB and upgrade your Yasha into Manta Style. Manta is a great items for Razor as now it gives +10% movement speed bonus, not to mention it also gives you +26 Agility,+10 Strength,+10 Intelligence and +15% Attack Speed. The images also can help you distract your enemies when they try focusing on you. If the battle is not finished, buy Talisman of Evasion to increase your survivability. The 25% evasion is very neat. Finish it to Butterfly if the battle continues. Skadi is also viable since it gives you health, mana and damage. The only problem is it's very expensive.

Well, the new Razor is more fun to play. Now he is very versatile and can use many set of items build

justice shall be swift

2011-07-08T04:03:00.000-07:00

INTRODUCTION

Morted is one of the game-breaking hero with her critical. She has two semi-escape mechanism and can easily strike without attracting attention. After having some hard-core games with her, I realized that she should be bought to light. Though GhostofGuns's guide on her was superb I think its time to once again revive the legend. Im going to show a different way to play her so please be open-minded and test her before spamming my guide to a wall of text.

Damage 46-48
Armor 4.3
Attack Range 100
Attack animation 0.3/0.7
Strength 23 + 1.85
Casting time 0.3/0.5
Agility 17 + 3.15
Base Attack time 1.7
Intelligence 13 + 1
Missile speed Instant
Sight range 1800/800

Her Stats are a bit above average. She has great agility gain thanks to it being her primary even though her starting is average. Strength is amazing and the gain is also good whereas intelligence is ok since she won't be needing a high mana pool.

BACKGROUND

Born into the reclusive Night Elf order known as the Wardens and shunned by mainstream Night Elf society, Mortred pledged allegiance to the Scourge to take revenge. A perfect blend of strength and speed, the years spent alone in the forests of Ashenvale allowed her to blend into the terrain, appearing phantomlike at times and striking when you least expect it. The deadly precision with which she carries out her attacks has made her a valuable member of the Scourge, and it is clear why she is known as the Phantom Assassin.

Dota Rules for Newbie..

2009-06-04T20:14:00.000-07:00

I decided to create this simple guide for those people who can't understand the complete orb effect priority table

You don't need to memorize the table. You just need these simple rules and you'll do just fine.

Rule#1: MELEE/RANGED HEROES SHOULD ONLY HAVE 1 ORB ITEM.

"Why do I see people having a lifesteal + maim combination?"
Maim WILL NOT TRIGGER with any lifesteal orb effect. Try to check maybe the hero have lifesteal skill which is not an orb effect for example: Naix.

Rule#2: RANGED HEROES COULD HAVE THE FOLLOWING COMBINATIONS:

Cold Attack + Maim
Cold Attack + Chain Lightning
Cold Attack + Lifesteal

Other combinations will not work.

Rule#3: HAVING ANY ORB EFFECT ITEM + MANTA WILL WORK.

"Why do i see people who use HoD + Manta?"

They only want the illusion skill of the manta not its feedback. If you want to do these, always place the feedback orb item into the 6th Slot.

Rule#4: TRYING TO HAVE 3 ORB EFFECT ITEM IS STUPID.

Note: This guide is for dummies only. And also, this may or may not be applicable to these Orb Heroes.
* Broodmother
* Sand King
* Ursa Warrior
* Anti-Mage
* Nerubian Weaver
* Bone Fletcher
* Drow Ranger
* Netherdrake
* Obsidian Destroyer
* Silencer
* Sacred Warrior
* Enchantress

I'll try to create a list of orb items that can work with each of those heroes' orb effect skill.

Questions, Corrections and Objections wil be entertained.

Dark Seer and GG Push

2009-06-04T06:09:00.000-07:00

Vacuum (C)

Creates an abyss upon a chosen parameter, pulling in and damaging foes in the area.
Level 1 - 60 Damage, 300 AOE
Level 2 - 120 Damage, 400 AOE
Level 3 - 180 Damage, 500 AOE
Level 4 - 240 Damage, 600 AOE
Mana Cost: 100/130/160/190
Cooldown: 16
Comment: Versatile skill. Can be used to save allies, save yourself, synergizes well with many ultimates, and useful for harassing, pushing, and farming. Oh yeah, and you can mow down trees!

Ion Shell (E)
Surrounds a target with energized spellwork, creating a shield that causes damage per second to enemy units who come in contact with it. Lasts 15 seconds
Level 1 - 30 damage per second
Level 2 - 45 damage per second
Level 3 - 60 damage per second
Level 4 - 75 damage per second
Mana Cost: 60/80/100/120
Cooldown: 15
Comment: Your signature spell. Very powerful at early game, can 1v1 almost any hero once you max this out, but the window of opportunity on this closes quickly.

Surge (R)

Floods a target with excess power, removing most negative buffs from it and giving it maximum speed for brief period of time.
Level 1 - Lasts 3 seconds.
Level 2 - Lasts 4.5 seconds.
Level 3 - Lasts 6 seconds.
Level 4 - Lasts 7.5 seconds.
Mana Cost: 20/30/40/50
Cooldown: 12/11/10/9
Comment: Versatile skill. Can be used to save allies, save yourself, and initiate ganks.

Wall of Replica (W)

Raises a wall out of pure mana across the landscape. Heroes who attempt to pass through it will have images of themselves emerge from the wall to serve under the Dark Seer until the wall's duration is up. Images take 250% damage and deal 35%.
Level 1 - Lasts 15 seconds.
Level 2 - Lasts 30 seconds.
Level 3 - Lasts 45 seconds.
Cast Range: 500/900/1300
Mana Cost: 200/300/400
Cooldown: 100

Dota-Allstars 6.57b AIPlus v1.52 Revision 1 Free Download

2009-05-27T03:30:00.000-07:00

Dota 6.57b AIPlus - Dota-Allstars 6.57b AIPlus 1.52 Map Revision 1 Free Download, the latest DotA 6.57b AI for Dota 6.57b. This map is updated to the latest version and more importantly it fixes the bugs with Alleria the Windrunner that crashes the games on the previous Dota 6.56 AIplus. Here what BuffMePlz said about his latest map:

DotA Allstars 6.57b AI+ 1.52 Revision 01
This is a port of RGB's AI+ 1.52 (originally written for DotA Allstars 6.48b).

It behaves the same as the original AI, and has only been updated to account for balance changes, new item recipes, and most new features. As such, some new content does not work fully with the AI yet.

Warning: There is no AI for Lifestealer, Invoker, Clockwerk Goblin, Admiral Proudmoore nor Windrunner. They will get items but will neither use nor learn their skills.

KNOWN BUGS
* AI don't properly react to -nb, -nm and -nt modes.
* Some exploits that should have been fixed are still in the game, just don't use them. If you really want to cheat against AI, just use -test.

Commands that have yet to be implemented properly:

* -ah
* -afk
* -kickafk
* -rd (the new one in 6.53, -rd is in the game but done the same way pre-6.53)
* -cm

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FUN TAVERN

Additionally, I have added two Fun Taverns in the lower right corner.

Currently includes fifteen legacy heroes (possibly more in the future):

* Old Invoker (6.12b)
* Old Lifestealer (6.48b)
* Old Silencer (6.12b)
* Gambler (6.06)
* Old Morphling (5.84b)
* Old Stealth Assassin (5.84b)
* Old Pudge (5.51)
* Old Chen (5.64)
* Old Medusa (5.84b)
* Void Demon (3.0d)
* Rider (5.72)
* God of Wind (6.01)
* Flame Lord (5.51)
* Avatar of Vengeance (6.32b)
* Astral Trekker (3.0d)

To access the fun taverns, type -fun within the first 15 seconds of the game. Note that Fun Tavern heroes do not have AI scripts and will not buy items or use/learn skills.

6.57b Port of AI+ and -fun content by BuffMePlz.

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CREDITS

* Tenshinhan DN
* Overflow_GR
* Duvon
* Strikur--
* Counter_Helix_axe
* Catalyst
* chaser02
* Green_Sliche
* cp6uja
* NNCCMMLL

Dota-Allstars 6.57b AIPlus 1.52 Map Revision 1 Changelogs:

Changelog:
Revision 1
-First update to 6.57b
-Fixed a bug with long gametype commands
-Fixed display text for -csXX
-Fixed a bug with Roshan's armour aura after 50 minutes
-Fixed a bug with selling Aghanim's Scepter
-Fixed a bug with -pe on the Scourge side
-Rewrote Focus Fire to prevent crashes with AI
-Rewrote the way AI purchases and sells Bottles to address a problem with dropping items
-AI Crystal Maiden now learns Brilliance Aura after Frost Nova and Frostbite (instead of at levels 22-25)
-AI Keeper of the Light now properly learns attribute bonuses
-Run Down (Rider) now gives vision of the targeted unit
-Improved the targeting and behaviour of Betrayal (Old Invoker)
-Fixed seeing a dummy ability when swapping with AI Sand King

*Unofficial fixes
-Fixed some typos (Eye of Skadi Ranged, Windrunner, Captain CoCo's Rum, Recall, Courier Shield, Burst)

Download link(please clik link below for free download):
Dota 6.57b AIPlus Rev. 1

Magic Stick, is it ever worth it?

2009-05-24T05:28:00.000-07:00

Q: I was sort of excited for Magic Stick, but I've rarely seen it in games, and when I have, it's been terrible. Are there any circumstances where it doesn't suck?

A: People don't remember that it's only 210g. Buy it from a sideshop when you have the money.

It's useful when facing a dual lane heroes with active spells(or a soloing serious spammer like zeus and bristle).
Everytime PA blinks or slows, you get a charge. Everytime Phantom lancer goes invis, you get a charge. Everytime windrunner even farts, you get a charge. Every now and then you get a charge on your lane and earlygame 15mana is a lot. You don't have to wait till it's full 10 charges, charges are just as effective when used right away.

Also it's a good for radaring ganks and junglers.
1) You are running through woods and suddenly you get a charge. No allies on minimap, you know there's a hero jungling. Profit, for only 210g.
2) You are laning down and miss is called for mirana, pudge, puck etc. and you get a charge. You know something is coming, hug the tower, get called a maphacker, maybe get a kill from towerdivers, profit, for 210g.

Also you wouldn't believe how many times that 210g item has saved me while I'm escaping.
In order to catch you, enemies throw slows or use other chasing abilities, which give you charges, and you can take another hit again.

Also for 210g you get more information on lane. You know when that Booty Hunter went invis in fog, and you know when that Kunkka used his aoeslowstunnuke and you have to run, and you know when Windrunner casted Powershot and you have to dodge, you won't miss the Bara's close range charge, Rexx's axes won't go unnoticed, you got the idea.

Also, do remember that it still costs 210g.
When it saves you once or gives you kill, it has already paid itself back.
210g only means that it's not supposed to be bought at the fountain in beginning of the game, but minutes later from sideshops.
Did I mention it costs only 210g?

I am The Iron Hand Of Justice

2009-05-23T03:13:00.000-07:00

Lanaya - Templar Assassin

Range: 140 | Move Speed: 305

Refraction (R)

Manipulating psionic energy around herself granting a mystical refraction of light that protects her from external harm and giving her bonus damage for a limited number of instances. Lasts 20 seconds.
Level 1 - 15 bonus damage, 3 instances
Level 2 - 30 bonus damage, 4 instances
Level 3 - 45 bonus damage, 5 instances
Level 4 - 60 bonus damage, 6 instances
Mana Cost: 75
Cooldown: 20
Comment: This skill HELPS you so much. You can prevent yourself from being damaged for 6 instances. It only has a low mana cost and an average cooldown. Use this in last hitting.

Meld (D)

The art of Shakuras allows Lanaya to conceal herself at any time of the day and strike from the shadows with her armor-shredding blades. Deals bonus damage and reduces enemy armor for 10 seconds.
Level 1 - 50 damage, -2 armor
Level 2 - 100 damage, -4 armor
Level 3 - 150 damage, -6 armor
Level 4 - 200 damage, -8 armor
Mana Cost: 100
Cooldown: 12
Comment: I only use this for survivability early game. But i use it to kill mid-late game. Heavily damaging skill. Also there is a minus armor so it is really helpful.

Psi Blades (B)

Using her psionic powers, the Templar causes enemy units behind her target to feel the same pain as the target itself. This psionic power extends her attack range.
Level 1 - 50 bonus damage, 80 spill
Level 2 - 100 bonus damage, 160 spill
Level 3 - 150 bonus damage, 240 spill
Level 4 - 200 bonus damage, 320 spill
Mana Cost:
Cooldown:
Comment: Lanaya has short range so this skill helps her very much. I get this early game to avoid being harassed. It also hits other creeps/heroes that are behind the target. Remember to position yourself properly for this to be useful

Psionic Trap (C)

Creates psionic traps on ground. When triggered, it will slow units within 400 range by 50% for 5 seconds.
Level 1 - Max 5 traps
Level 2 - Max 8 traps
Level 3 - Max 11 traps
Mana Cost: 15
Cooldown: 11/9/7
Comment: This skill helps in killing. You can catch up to heroes fleeing because of the low cooldown.

A Metagame Shift in Competitive DotA

2009-05-21T04:36:00.000-07:00

This change will be important in the tournament scene. In addition to changes in the professional team in recent tournaments, the new version displays the creativity and ingenuity of the actors.

The most significant change will be to "nerve" to Kelen's Dagger of leakage, also known as Blink Dagger. Well, friends, Blink Dagger will be more appropriate name, since the ability to blink is forbidden three seconds (from the last time you were affected). If you look at the replays before the tournament, it is easy to imagine how Kelen's Dagger of Escape is a name. With this change, the dagger may be used to escape on occasion. Escape which you most likely be achieved without a dagger in the first place. Dagger will be primarily used as a tool for positioning of key skills, such as the epicenter, reverse polarity, Echo Slam, freezing or field.

Conversely, the heroes have a flash, as well as the capacity could be increased in a number of choices. Heroes, as the Queen of Pain, the Dark Dragon and fairy LED most likely find the tournament to play in games to come. Given the Akasha, the Queen of Pain is already widely used in tournaments, it will be interesting to see how the teams took their ranges in the selection process for each party. Although the puck, Dragon and fairy Ish'kafel, Dark seeing is a new hero, who must be allowed in a tournament, their innate ability to flash will be a key factor in their selection.

Another key factor is at stake is the loss of an empty bottle at the top and bottom bar secret stores. You will need your chicken more than ever. Now called the Goblin boutiques, showcases a slew of various items are, of course, key elements of the higher points. These stores are always accessible from the track. You have your hero navigate closer to the store to buy everything is permitted. These stores also create flexibility in the choice of the track, because the credits are available.

From a higher perspective of a lot of changes in the new version of the game better. Games should end more quickly than usual because it is much easier to kill. Taken together, these changes are good and where appropriate, in accordance with the overall objective of the creator. It will be interesting to see what the experts of these changes and how to incorporate them into their strategy.